Fruit-jar cover.



S. J. VASALY. FRUIT JAR COVER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2'1, 1908.

PATBNTED AUG. 4, 190a.

SPIRIT JACOB VASALY, OF LITTLE FALLS, MINNESOTA.

FRUIT-JAR. 'covnn.

Specificationof Letters Patent;-

. Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed August 27, 1906. Serial No. 332,228.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SPIRIT JACOB VASALY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Little Falls, in the county of Morrison and State of Minnesota, have invented an Imrovement in F ruit-J ar Covers, of which the ollowing is a specification.

By my invention-I provide an elastic and secure air-tight, detachable cover for fruit and other preserve iars. The details of construction and com ination of parts are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of a jar provided with my improved attachment: Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cover proper;

The top portion of the glass jar body A is shown reduced in diameter and provided "with exterior screwthreads adapted to receive and duly engage the pendent flange of the annular metal cover B. The cover proper is a disk or fiat plate, D, whose diam-- eter 1S slightly less than the diameter of the screwthreaded top portion of the jar A. This disk rests upon a rubber gasket G, which in turn rests upon the top edge of the jar proper. The art B constitutes a cover-securer, althoug forming itself a part otthe cover attachment. It is constructed of thin elastic metal, and its upper portion is bent or curved downwardly and inwardly and its edge inturned and extended laterally so as to lie at an angle to the disk upon the edge of which it bears, the bearing being directly over the gasket G. By this construction the inturned edge constitutes practically a spring of annular form. The gasket G ada ts itself to the inequalities of the ed e of t e jar and the spring cover-secure: ears upon the disk, which is thus held upon the gasket with elastic ressure. Thus the rubber gasket and the inturned edge of the art B, '0 reason of their elasticity, form an e astic an yet secure air-tight closure; yet the part B ma be unscrewed and removed without difficu ty after air shall have been admitted to the interior of the jar.

It will be understood that a partial vacuum is produced in the jar when its contents cool, and thus the pressure of the atmos hereexterior to the 18.1 is added to that of t 1e part B for holding the disk cover D tightly in place. In order to relieve the vacuum when it is desired to remove the cover, I provide the latter with a series of holes Fsee Fig. 2- which, after the jar has has been filled, are closed by means of cement plugs E, the same being enlarged at the top as shown in Fig. 1. The cement being comperatively soft, may be easily removed by means of a knife or other sharp instrument, for the purpose of admitting an to the body of the jar.

The under side of the disk cover D is co"- ered with shellac G to revent contact of the contents of the jar WllSl the metal of which the cover is preferably made.

I claim- A securer for a jar cover which is constructed of metal in annular form and adapted for detachable connection with the ar body, its upper portion being bent inward and downward and the edge inturned and inclincddownward at an angle to the horizontal, whereby it is adapted to form a s ring bearing for a cover proper, substantial y as described.

SPIRIT JACOB VASALY.

Witnesses:

W. W. Bnnorrsm, Jumus Juncnssos. 

